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傳為煜呱(活躍於約1840年) 金星門泊處 布面油畫 有框
Provenance: Martyn Gregory, London
來源:倫敦古董商Martyn Gregory
Cumsingmun bay is on the eastern side of Xiangshan Island about 12 miles north-east of Macau. It is screened to the east by the island of Qiao (Kee-ow), where a large fleet used to lie in the summer season. This deep-water anchorage was used by Western merchants to exchange opium brought to the China coast from India. In the course of the Chinese authorities' campaign to stamp out the opium trade, an Imperial decree was passed in September 1836 forbidding foreign ships to anchor either at Lintin (five miles to the east) or Cumsingmun.
Foreigners were slow to comply, even after the Chinese built a battery in 1837 overlooking Cumsingmun. In 1846 there were four receiving ships, two British-owned, one American, and one Parsi permanently anchored here.